Writers Guild of America, East Executive Director Lowell Peterson penned an op-ed which appears today, which reads in part: “If the networks want to keep their collaborators safe, reduce the embarrassments from cancelled shows, and prevent lawsuits that hold them liable for accidents, things have to change. It’s time...

The Grim Realities of Reality TV: Workers Speak More than three hundred producers wrote in to tell their stories when Gawker invited them to do so in The Grim Realities of Reality TV. Here’s part of a story: “Corporate credit card? Forget it. We often have to use personal...

Civil Service and Labor Committee Hearing “It is important to the City of New York to encourage the growth of well-paying, stable jobs in the creative economy. Nonfiction television, an expanding and lucrative industry, is important to this growth. The jobs it provides should meet certain standards that our...

When labor advocates and law enforcement officials talk about wage theft, they are usually referring to situations in which low-wage service-sector employees are forced to work off the clock, paid subminimum wages, cheated out of overtime pay or denied their tips. It is a huge and underpoliced problem. It is...

Congressman Jerrold Nadler and NYC Public Advocate-Elect Tish James were on hand today as the Writers Guild released a comprehensive research report on working conditions in the nonfiction TV industry. The report found that a typical nonfiction TV producer loses $30,000 a year in overtime pay, and as a...